CATALOG RECORD

Jungle Comics #118

Fiction House · Series began 1940 · October 1949

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Dates

Cover date: October 1949
Pages: 52

Editions and covers

Original edition
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Creators

pencils: Iger Shop, Maurice Whitman, Bill Walsh, Kurt Caesar, Bob Webb, Henry Kiefer, Ralph Mayoinks: Iger Shop, Maurice Whitman, Bill Walsh, Kurt Caesar, Henry Kiefer, Ralph Mayoscript: Frank Riddell, Ed Hunt, Nils Van Duren, Pierre La Rue, Roy L. Smith, Clyde Beatty, Victor Ibsen

Stories

The Muffled Drums of Doom! · 11 pages
Treasure hunters looting local temples are confronted by Kaänga and his new ward, Toru. The looters are killed by crocodiles.
Untitled · 5 pages
Mrs. Simba is caught in a hunter's snare. Kino goes to rouse Simba while Mrs. Simba, trapped, is attacked by mandrills. Simba drives away the mandrills and then gets two elephants to push down the tree that Mrs. Simba is hanging from.
Wild Life · 1 pages
Trivia about several animals.
Untitled · 6 pages
Bertha's mine overseer, in a plan to cover his diamond thefts, convinces Bertha's native laborers to go on strike. When King and Bertha arrive at the mine site, Bertha takes the airplanes control and buzzes the natives, humiliating Sahi, the chief. Sahi orders his men to attack King and Bertha. Jingo interrogates the overseer and the plot is exposed. The overseer is turned over to the district police and Sahi begs Bertha for forgiveness.
Untitled · 4.67 pages
Treasure hunters, searching an ancient Carthaginian treasure ship, uses dynamite to block the lancers' steamboat from leaving the fort. But, unknown to the treasure hunters, Terry has a helicopter that he uses to go after the hunters, whom he subdues and takes into custody.
Untitled · 6 pages
Wambi plays pranks on his jungle friends using stilts, and they shun him. Then, local hunters begin to take captive many of the jungle animals. Tawn refuses Wambi's offer of help and is himself captured, trying to free Ogg. Wambi then uses his stilts to frighten the hunters. He is forgiven for his pranks when he releases his friends.
Part 1 - The Freshman Class · The Big Cage · 3 pages
About training wild animals.
Untitled · 8 pages
Ivory looters take the ivory of Chief Nyoto's people. The looters tell the chief they are in league with Camilla. When Camilla arrives later that day, she is set upon by the tribe. She escapes, catches up with the looters and restores the ivory to the tribe.

Reprinted in

Wambi Jungle Boy (1950), Kaänga Comics (1950), Fight Comics (1950)